Book ID: CBB000951789

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (2008)

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Fortey, Richard A. (Author)


Alfred A. Knopf


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: 335 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Slepkova, Nadezhda V.
Patricia Coorough Burke
Lesser, Thomas A.
Voss, Georgina
Davey, Colin
Roosevelt, Kermit, III
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Science as Culture
Mendel Newsletter
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Empire State Editions - Fordham University Press
Makadam Förlag
University of Virginia Press
The College of William and Mary
Smithsonian Books
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Museums
Societies; institutions; academies
Science and society
Natural history
Popularization
Public understanding of science
People
Brian Cox
Jesup, Morris K.
Green, Andrew Haswell
Tweed, William Marcy
Futter, Ellen
Hunter, John
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
St. Petersburg (Russia)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Russia
North America
Institutions
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Royal Society of London
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
American Museum of Natural History
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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